Louis J. Goldford (b.1983), has studied music from age eight. His music has been heard in Poland, throughout the Saint Louis area and at Webster University, where his pieces have been featured on a number of scholarship, faculty, and new music recitals. In 2007 Mr. Goldford conducted the premiere of his first large-scale vocal work, Of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, a cantata depicting censorship for chorus, soloists, chamber orchestra, electronics and video more on ’Of petals...’ @ lostclassic . His saxophone quartet The Fields at Abacoa took first place in the 2005 Arden and Harry Fisher Young Composers Competition. In July 2003 Louis participated as a student assistant at the International Summer Jazz Academy [ISJA] in Krakow, Poland, whereupon he was invited to attend the following year. In 2004 the ISJA Big Band premiered his No Baby Ruminations, a memorial piece for saxophonist Steve Lacy. His Concavity II: Real Big Business can be found in Tonality and Design in Music Theory by Earl Henry [Prentice Hall, 2005]. He has also been heard as part of the ongoing Sounds from the Underground program, where contemporary music is presented as a series of installations in the Delmar Loop. Mr. Goldford recently graduated from Webster University, where he studied piano, saxophone, composition, and economics. He’s played in Saint Louis with such bands as the The Commoners, The Zydeco Crawdaddys and The Deborah Sharn Group, currently sings with the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, and teaches privately.Notes on the above audio...
No Baby Ruminations
[4 mov’ts, improvising jazz ensemble of variable size, 7-18’]
this excerpt: 4th mov’t, "Imbroglio" with transition, Webster University Big Band, 4.2005; soloist in this excerpt is Jim Klaverkamp, bari sax
I Am Not Virginia
[3 mov’ts, electronic media + samples, 13’]
this excerpt: 3rd mov’t, "Aria-Gymnopedie" with transition
Three Verses from Song of the Open Road
[3 mov’ts, piano + voice, settings of the poem by Walt Whitman, 14’]
this excerpt: 3rd mov’t, "Listen! I will be honest with you," 6.2003
The Fields at Abacoa
[2 mov’ts, saxophone quartet, 15’]
this excerpt: 2nd mov’t, "Dissolves into black," Metropolitan Saxophone Quartet, 3.2005
All music (c) Louis J. Goldford
